After one too many jars of ice-cold Shiner Bock beer had rendered our legs incapable of any further hoedown action, we headed outside, admired the classic cars parked outside, then slumped into a cab that whisked us back to our hotel.

I take the beer and dry it into a powder and mix it with sugar salt and honey so it is sweet and salty with the beer and use that as a dry topical coating on the chips" Better Stern the inventor and president of Portland Ore-based Beer Chips LLC tells Grocery Headquarters Bock beer is used and the alcohol evaporates during the drying process In addition to Beer Chips the company also makes Chip Shorts Margarita with Salt and Hot Potatoes Spicy Bloody Mary potato chips

CHEERS: Cains joint managing directors Sudarghara, (left) and Ajmail Dusanj, above, launched their Double Bock beer at the Liverpool Beer Festival where they joined other local brewers, right Pictures: MARTIN BIRCHALL

Sponsored by Liverpool's biggest commercial brewers Cains, whose new 8% Double Bock beer will be making its debut, this part of the festival will celebrate new Merseyside breweries whose numbers have grown from three to 10 in three years.

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